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March 11, 2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 70
86004 Today: H 66° \ L0 27°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16 (1966)
Record High: 69°[1900]
Record Low: -5°[1948]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Rose Kennedy
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Dream 2017 Day
Genealogy Day Link
International Fanny Pack Day Link
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day
World Plumbing Day Link
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action Link
5-11
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
6-12
Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
7-13
No More Week Link
8-10
American Nurses Association Week
8-14
National Catholic Sisters
Week Link
10-12
World Rattlesnake Roundup
11-17
Turkey Vultures Return to the
Living Sign
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1665 NY
approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
► 1669 Volcano
Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
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1779 US
Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin
Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out
Washington, D.C.
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1823 1st
normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 US War Dept
creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
► 1845 The
Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to
chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial
settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1850 Woman's
Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
► 1851 Giuseppe
Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
1892 1st
public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
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► 1917 British
forces occupy Baghdad, the capital of Mesopotamia, after Turkish forces
evacuated
► 1918 Moscow
becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 Save the
Redwoods League founded
1918 First
confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley,
Kansas.
1927 1st
golden gloves tournament
► 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend
money to Britain)
1953 1st
woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1958 American
B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff,
South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule
1959 "Raisin
in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1968 Otis
Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
► 1986 1
million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
► 1995 Sinn
Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1997 Ashes
of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
► 1997 Beatle
McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
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► 2006 Michelle
Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
► 2011 9.0
magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan,
triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst
nuclear accident in history
► 2013 European
Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
► 2014 Refugees
from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Took off early-ish to get my vehicle a spring cleaning. Lots of people
had the same idea and we were lined up way before the 10a opening. I was the 6th
car and I waited 90 minutes. They were really busy. Not really complaining as
they did a great job.
Then off for some shopping. Found everything on the list. Only spent
$115. I am now really ready for spring. Our weather has us all getting the ol’
spring fever. Warm days, cool nights, and redently not a lot of wind.
Talked to my friend about his surgery. They placed a plate in is arm for
a broken humerus. His scheduled surgery was 8:30pm on Tuesday. So that means no
food/water after 8am Tuesday. There was an emergency surgery that night, so
they didn’t operate until 11:30am Wednesday. He is fine but the surgery was
cancelled so late all he got were ice chips until the procedure was over. Seems
that there should have been a better plan. He may get out tomorrow.
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Where is CenturyLink Field?
Denver, Colorado
Dallas, Texas
San Diego, California
Seattle, Washington
52.4% taking the internet quiz
got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
2→Number of years by
which an average US book reader outlives a nonreader
6→ Rank of the US among countries with the largest proportion
of book readers
1→Of China
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❆❆ Joke For The Day❆❆
A kid asked his mother, “Mom, can you buy me those two toys that we had
seen at the store the other day?”
His mother replied, “I will buy you one of them. One is enough to keep you busy
at playtime.”
Later that day, the kid started doing his homework. The mother said, “Remember
that you have two activities as homework today.”
The kid replied, “I will do one of them. One is enough to keep me busy at study
time.”
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
A bank robber failed to get any money from a teller after a security
guard realized that she was using a large water gun as her weapon, according to
police in Texas.
Amarillo police said that they have arrested 31-year-old Lashondra Deniece
Sandoval-Martin, after being accused of stealing a pickup truck and holding up
National Bank.
According to the criminal complaint, Sandoval-Martin stole the pickup truck
that a worker left running with the keys in the ignition, then drove it to the
National Bank located. She walked into an area that is restricted to the public
and pointed her water gun at a teller, demanding cash.
When a security guard walked into the room, Sandoval-Martin pointed the water
gun at him. That is when the security realized that she was holding a large
water gun.
He attempted to detain her, but she managed to break free and ran out of the
bank.
Sandoval-Martin was later apprehended and charged with aggravated robbery and
unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Dr. Julius Wagner Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for syphilis.
He would treat it by giving the patient malaria. It's called fever therapy. The
high body temperature caused by the malaria would kill the syphilis, then once
it was gone, the doctor would administer the antidote for malaria.
Ivanhoe Reservoir needed to keep sunlight from turning its water
carcinogenic. The problem comes when sunlight combines with chlorine and
bromide, forming bromate. So the L.A. Department of Water covered its surface
with balls. 400,000 black plastic balls effectively blocked sunlight from
reaching the surface of the water.
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❆❆How our states were named❆❆
California
California existed in European literature way
before Europeans settled the Western U.S. It wasn't a state filled with
vineyards and movie stars, but an island in the West Indies filled with gold
and women. The fictional paradise, first mentioned in the early 1500s by
Spanish author Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo in his novel Las Sergas de
Esplandián, is ruled by Queen Califia and “inhabited by black women,
without a single man among them, [living in] the manner of Amazons.” The island
is said to be “one of the wildest in the world on account of the bold and
craggy rocks... everywhere abounds with gold and precious stones” and is home
to griffins and other mythical beasts.
While there is some consensus that the area was named for
the fictional island, scholars have also suggested that the name comes from the
Catalan words calor (“hot”) and forn (“oven”)
or from a Native America phrase, kali forno (“high hill”).
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
86- Rupert Murdoch, Australian media mogul
(NY Post, News of the World, FOX-TV), born in Melbourne, Victoria
@→85- Sir Fitzroy
Maclean, Scottish diplomat soldier politician, author and
an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, born in Cairo (D 1996)
@→80- Henry Tate,
English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) (D1899)
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@→79- Harold Wilson,
British Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76), born in Huddersfield,
England (d. 1995)
@→79- Antonin Scalia,
105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016)
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@→69- Thomas
Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in
NYC, New York
@→64- Ralph
Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian
Leadership) (D 1990)
60-Shemp Howard, comedian (3 Stooges) (D 1955)
63- Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
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@→54- Otto Friedrich
Müller, Copenhagen, Danish Naturalist who was a pioneer
in the study of microorganisms including bacteria, diatoms, and infusoria
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@→49- Douglas Adams,
English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), born in Cambridge, England
(d. 2001)
48- Terrance Howard, Actor (Empire)
46- Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
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@→27- Anton Yelchin,
Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (d.
2016)
21- Chase Crawford, movie actor
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@96-1955 Oscar
Mayer,
Bavarian-born American meat packer
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@80-1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason)
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@74-1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), heart attack
@73-1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), heart attack
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@69-2010 Merlin
Olsen,
American football player / Actor, mesothelioma
@68-1957 Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach
both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed)
@67-1996 Vince
Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), cancer
@64-2006 Slobodan
Milošević, President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), heart attack
in prison
@63-1874 Charles Sumner, a white
civil rights leader, heart attack
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Seattle, Washington
CenturyLink Field is designed with a 67,000 seat capacity! That means nearly
1 in every 10 people in Seattle can watch a live Seahawks game at the same
time! The roof covers about 70% of the stadium which is great because it's
Seattle and, you know, rain. The coolest part of CenturyLink Field is that, in
addition to its naming rights for the stadium, CenturyLink also agreed to
increase its support for local Seahawks charities. BOOM! Source: Seattle
Seahawks Official Website
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to
agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is
usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every
site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites
simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring
before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally
accurate.
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